The first virtual IT Confidence conference, free of charge for everybody to attend

August 28th 09.00 AM CEST and September 4th 12.00 PM EDT

Submission Guidelines

Software intensive organizations (SIOs) have been aware of the significance of measurement processes for informed decision-making and for managing software processes, products and projects. Measurement represents an important enabler for software, systems and service process improvements. But when starting an improvement program, SIOs not always have historical data at their disposal and this can significantly increase time, effort and costs for obtaining a positive return on investment (ROI) from such measurement and monitoring activities. Especially since many organizations have adopted an agile way of working, the use of standardized data and metrics becomes even more important. Many CxO level managers experience lack of grip and predictability as they are not fed with standardized management information. Therefore decision-making based on facts is increasingly difficult. Also the teams themselves often think they are very predictable, using non standardized story point metrics, but research shows actual predictability in fact is very low in most cases.

ISBSG helps the industry by providing an independent source of software project data that can be used for various fact-based decision making processes.Drawing on the ISBSG’s 20-year experience, this conference will provide a forum for both practitioners and researchers to discuss the most recent advances in data collection, analysis, standardization, and benchmarking. We invite professionals responsible for, involved in, or interested in data collection, analysis, standardization, and benchmarking to share innovative ideas, experiences, and concerns within this scope. The conference targets two types of contributions:

Experience contributions: e.g. problem statements and practiced solutions in planning and using benchmarking practices for helping and driving strategic decision-making, and